Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

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

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

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

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

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

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Yo, Adrian!

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.