Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

An abandoned military bunker that has been transformed into an artist's paradise.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The radio station that's been promising to make love to you for the last 15 years—if you happen to be on one specific block in suburban New Jersey.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

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