The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Berlin's old airport.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.