A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

An original apothecary from 1792.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.