Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

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

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

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.