A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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 church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

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

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.