This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.