One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.