It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.