Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.