All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.