John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.