A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A local prank turned town icon.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.