For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.