This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

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

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

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

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.