An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

This historic Ohio bridge is adorned with fanciful locks left behind by loving couples.

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

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.