In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This historic Ohio bridge is adorned with fanciful locks left behind by loving couples.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.