The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A local prank turned town icon.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.