Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

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

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.