Lorton, Virginia
Stoney Lonesome Cemetery
A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.
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Lorton, Virginia
A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Richardson, Texas
"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."
Dallas, Texas
A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
Dallas, Texas
A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.
Dallas, Texas
This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Alexandria, Virginia
This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.
Fairfax, Virginia
A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.
Vienna, Virginia
An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.
Front Royal, Virginia
This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.
Syria, Virginia
Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.
Appomattox, Virginia
The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Orrville, Alabama
This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The first space rock known to have struck a human.
Birmingham, Alabama
Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.