The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

America's first public mental health facility.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.