Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

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

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

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

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

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

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

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

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

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.