A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.