In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Bizarre Cavern.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The eerie, tragic setting of one of Japan’s most popular ghost stories.

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.