A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

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

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.