A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The loneliest island in New York.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.