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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

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

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A massive white oak tree provides a beautiful canopy near a suburban shopping center and stood before the signing of the Constitution.

This mighty white oak in Bethesda survived both the American Revolution and the construction of Washington D.C.'s metro red line.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.