Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Mothman Statue
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Windber, Pennsylvania
An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.
Germantown, Maryland
The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Boonsboro, Maryland
Bizarre Cavern.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
South Park Township, Pennsylvania
One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.
Archbald, Pennsylvania
It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."
Bangor, Pennsylvania
This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.
Austin, Pennsylvania
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
Pittston, Pennsylvania
The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.