This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A pristine beach on the Gulf of Mexico with deep ties to Pensacola’s Black community.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.