Bristol, Virginia
State Street
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
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Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Birmingham, Alabama
A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.
Alice Town, Bahamas
One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.
Nassau, Bahamas
This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Jamestown may have been the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, but the colonists made landfall at a lesser known cape.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The first federal construction project authorized under the Constitution
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.
Glenn Dale, Maryland
An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.