A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

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

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

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

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

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.