One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.