This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

It takes a nine-mile hike to reach these hot springs, but weary hikers are rewarded with stunning views and a warm soak.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

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

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.