An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

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

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Bizarre Cavern.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A local prank turned town icon.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

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

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