This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

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

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.