In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.