America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

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

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.