There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

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

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Bizarre Cavern.

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

A tiny one-room church built after one man's prayer for healing was answered.

Where the oil industry began.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

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

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This restored log building was one of the first toll booths for travelers along the Northern Turnpike.