Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke Pinball Museum
This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.
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Roanoke, Virginia
This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Fitzgerald, Georgia
The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Lexington, Virginia
The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.
Asheville, North Carolina
This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Elmira, New York
The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.
Elmira, New York
The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.
Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Tokyo, Japan
This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Lexington, Virginia
The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.
Staunton, Virginia
The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.