Villisca, Iowa
Villisca Axe Murder House
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
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Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Frankfort, Kentucky
This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.
Burlington, Kentucky
Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.
Louisville, Kentucky
This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
Maysville, Kentucky
This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Williamsburg, Kentucky
Moonbows over Kentucky.
Versailles, Kentucky
This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Seabrook, South Carolina
North America's oldest authentic African Village.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.
Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Fort Lawn, South Carolina
Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.