The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.