This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

America's first public mental health facility.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.