This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

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

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

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

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

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

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

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

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

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.