In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A sycamore tree grown from seeds that traveled to the moon.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

This formerly abandoned amusement park includes a classic carousel and a replica of Mark Twain's famous hut-like Elmira study.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A local prank turned town icon.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.