Places A Bear Wants to Go

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

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

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.