This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

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

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.