This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.