In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

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

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

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

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.