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This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.