The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.