This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.