This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

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.

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

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.