Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.