The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

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

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

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.