This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

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

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.