Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

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

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

A man's home is his castle.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

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

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.