This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.