A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The playful side of the Columbus community is on full display.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

A group of monuments to the Cherokee origins of Tennessee.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.