Places Sea Wants to Go

A collection of abstract sculptures by a former tobacco auctioneer turned outsider artist.

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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

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

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

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

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

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.