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

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

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

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.