Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

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

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."