A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

The most historic church in Fairfax County played a role in the creation of the American Red Cross.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

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

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

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

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

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

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

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.