This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

After public executions took place at this location, attendants would also attend a local horse race.

A replica memorializes the site where women were punished after the last witchcraft trial in Ireland.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.