Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

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

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The summer estate of John Weeks offers dazzling views and a moose captured by Theodore Roosevelt.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

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

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.