The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.

The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

The site where nine miners were trapped underground for over 77 hours in 2002.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.