Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

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

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

This restored log building was one of the first toll booths for travelers along the Northern Turnpike.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

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

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.