This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

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.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

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

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

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

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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.