The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

Dedicated to the largest armed uprising in American history since the Civil War.

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

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

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

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

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

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

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.