A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.