A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

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

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.