Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

A local prank turned town icon.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

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

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.