America's first public mental health facility.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

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

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

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

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.