These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The world's only statue dedicated to the greatest Great Dane in comic strip history.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.