Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

The final resting place of a circus performer who went by the pseudonym "General Tom Thumb."

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

America's first public mental health facility.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This 19th-century clock has been restored to help withstand the harsh environment of its seaside home.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.