This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

Constructed in 1882, this jail once housed local inmates and the sheriff's family all under one roof.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.