Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

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

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

Where the oil industry began.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.