For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

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

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

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

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

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

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.