Places olinorfolk Wants to Go

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

America's first federal monument.

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

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.