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A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

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

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Feast on Caribbean classics from curry goat to black cake.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.