Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Virginia

While in Virginia, you might enjoy a visit to:

Memorial to the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944. Bedford lost more men per capita on D-Day than any other American city.
~23 miles from Roanoke.

Mark Cline, fiberglass sculptor, may have built the world's most accurate Stonehenge replica. Out of styrofoam.
~34 miles from Roanoke.

A local family unearthed the largest diamond ever found in North America and kept it in their tool shed for years.
~47 miles from Roanoke.

Home of "Bat Boy" (according to the Weekly World News), a show cave in which a guy once sat on a stalagmite for sixteen butt-numbing days.
~47 miles from Roanoke.

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