Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

America's first public mental health facility.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.