Virginia
Find Virginia travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
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This Year’s Mark Cline Prank: Dead Giant
Daleville - Mark Cline, creator of Foamhenge, views April Fool's Day as his personal holiday, one that must be celebrated each year with an elaborate prank. Full story
Featured Attractions
The Tank Museum
Danville, Virginia
Sprawling personal collection of historic military armored vehicles. And a Martian tripod.
Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
Arlington, Virginia
Displays include pimp shoes worn by an undercover agent, a diamond-encrusted drug kingpin pistol, and a simulated head shop.
George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Alexandria, Virginia
Lots of odd stuff, from a replica Ark of the Covenant to George Washington's Clock of Death.
NRA National Firearms Museum
Fairfax, Virginia
Self-described "crown jewel of firearms museums in the world" is loaded for bear, criminals, and storm troopers.
Shenandoah Caverns
Shenandoah, Virginia
At this almost anything-goes commercial cave, a scary pixie beckons the unwary.
Dinosaur Kingdom
Natural Bridge, Virginia
It's dinosaurs vs. the Union Army in an alternate universe Civil War!
Foamhenge
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Mark Cline, fiberglass sculptor, has built the world's prettiest and most accurate Stonehenge replica. Out of styrofoam.
American Celebration On Parade
Shenandoah, Virginia
After their Day of Glory, the luckiest parade floats are sheltered and exhibited at this museum.
Arm of Stonewall Jackson
Fredericksburg, Virginia
General Stonewall Jackson -- Robert E. Lee's "right arm" -- lost his left arm to friendly fire. It's buried and memorialized here.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Abingdon: Star Museum
- Alexandria: George Washington Masonic National Memorial
- Arlington: Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
- Burnt Chimney - Wirtz: Ass Kicking Machine [tips]
- Charlottesville: Nearly Nude Dropout Hero Monument
- Charlottesville: Graves of Beta and Seal, dog mascots
- Chincoteague: Stuffed Misty and Stormy [tips]
- Danville: The Tank Museum
- Fairfax: NRA National Firearms Museum [tips]
- Fort Lee: Women's Army Museum [tips]
- Fredericksburg: Grave of Stonewall Jackson's Arm, Chancellorsville Battlefield
- Lexington: Coffee Pot-Shaped Building
- Lexington: Stonewall Jackson, the rest of him, Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery
- Lexington: Stonewall Jackson's Horse, Virginia Military Institute
- Luray: Luray Caverns [tips]
- Mount Vernon: George Washington's False Teeth
- Natural Bridge: Dinosaur Kingdom [tips]
- Natural Bridge: Enchanted Castle Studio
- Natural Bridge: Foamhenge [tips]
- Natural Bridge: Haunted Monster Museum
- New Market: Johnny Appleseed
- Richmond: Giant Milk bottles [tips]
- Richmond: J.E.B. Stuart Mortal Wound jacket., Virginia Historical Society Museum
- Roanoke: Elvis City, Mini- Graceland [tips]
- Roanoke: Mill Mountain Star
- Rockingham County: Turkey #1 and Turkey #2
- Schuyler: John Boy Walton's Home [tips]
- Shenandoah: American Celebration on Parade
- Shenandoah: Shenandoah Caverns [tips]
- Smithfield: World's Largest Cured Ham [tips]
- Virginia Beach: Mount Trashmore [tips]
- Virginia Beach: Spooky Edgar Cayce Institute [tips]
- Waverly: Oldest Peanut Museum in the US [tips]
- White Post: Dinosaur Land [tips]
- Williamsburg: President Park #2 [tips]
- Winchester: World's Largest Apple [Salad of the Gods]
