On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

Supplies are schlepped up by llamas at this century-old inn, accessible only by hiking trails in the Great Smokies.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.