Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

Historical structures and natural wonders await visitors to this preserve.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.