This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

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Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.