A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An amazing example of Federal-period architecture, truly unique to this region of the state.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.