A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

A former church turned school, turned museum, this building houses artifacts both unusual and mundane.

Slated for demolition in 1962, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge was saved by conservationists.

This vintage shopping center has more than 225 vendors selling everything from sports memorabilia to century-old furniture.

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

Climb the tallest remaining fire lookout tower in West Virginia for unparalleled views—if you dare.

Catch rising stars of Appalachia’s music scene before they make it big at this restaurant and community hub.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

A coal town pitcher who became a record-setting legend, then came home to serve

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

A steel skeleton is all that exists of what is supposed to be a replica of Noah's Ark

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

While seemingly a cruel joke, this bench actually honors an esteemed member of the community who passed away in 2006.

An 1830s street scene and roadside relics trace the country’s first great highway

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.