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This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

Once the center of a thriving early Black community called Martinsburg.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.