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

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.