A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

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

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.