The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

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

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.