In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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.

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

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

A century-old wooden walkway where artists and free spirits have built a funky, countercultural main street.

A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.