Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The magic's in the hole!

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.