Places Edited by asdonkar

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.