Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

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

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

A local prank turned town icon.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

This iconic Lancaster everyman has been reading the same story since 1980.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.