A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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.

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

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

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

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

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

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

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