An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

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

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.