Hyattsville, Maryland
Vanadu Art House
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
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Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Herndon, Virginia
Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.
Yorktown, Virginia
Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.
Charles City, Virginia
John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.
Lorton, Virginia
The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.
Montpelier Station, Virginia
The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.
Wytheville, Virginia
The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
Chincoteague Island, Virginia
The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.
Falls Church, Virginia
A whopping 14,000 copper coins cover this miniature fighter jet.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Buckingham, Virginia
The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.
Alexandria, Virginia
In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.
Alexandria, Virginia
A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.