In the 19th century, this canal provided power to mills, machine shops, and other businesses in the area.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Alongside this Memphis trail are several sculptures that show trail-goers how to relax.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

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

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.