A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

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

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

In this beloved beach town, a secret seafood haven lies tucked behind a car wash.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.