At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.