In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

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.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

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

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.