An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Designed by the company that provided water to the entire community.

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

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.

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

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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