This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.