A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A man's home is his castle.

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

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.