The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

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

This former train station was once an important shipping depot for the regions farmers.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.