Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Central New York's first aquaponic farm (Closed).

This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.