The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.