Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.