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

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

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

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.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

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

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

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

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

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

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

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

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

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

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