These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.