Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

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

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

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