This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

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

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.