A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

The birthplace and original home of the legendary American playwright.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A monument to a Polish general who fought the American Revolution and became the "Father of the American Cavalry."

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Moonbows over Kentucky.