The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

Take a ride on antique streetcars from across Canada.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

This former big box store has been reimagined as a massive public art space.