"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.