Like Mars, but much closer.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

America's first public mental health facility.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.