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Winchester, Virginia

Patsy Cline's Childhood Home and Grave

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

Winchester, Virginia

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

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White Post, Virginia

Dinosaurland

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

9 miles from Winchester

Bluemont, Virginia

Soviet Embassy's 'Summer Camp' House

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

15 miles from Winchester

Front Royal, Virginia

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

20 miles from Winchester

Martinsburg, West Virginia

National Tracing Center

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

20 miles from Winchester

Martinsburg, West Virginia

Big Apple Time Capsule

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

21 miles from Winchester

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Explore the Ruins of Seneca Quarry

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Unique Food & Drink in Winchester

Butter Molds

These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.

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