This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

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

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

A white oak with property rights.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.