The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.