A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?