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

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

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

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

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

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

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.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

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

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

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

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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

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

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

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

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

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

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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

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