This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

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

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

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

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.