A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

One of the oldest surviving Swedish-American homes in the United States.

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.