A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

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

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

Once the home of a noted Civil War spy, the two-story brick house now serves as a museum.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Chase waterfalls, hiking trails and more.