A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Using a massive antenna made up of five miles of wire, two scientists tuned into organic radio waves from the planet Jupiter.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

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

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.