Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

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

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

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

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.