Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

This unassuming brick building has survived fires, storms, and more to bring entertainment to one Delaware town.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

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

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

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.