These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A tribute to two brothers' artistic endeavors.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.