This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Final remnants of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The castle used by the Danish Royal Family as a hunting retreat.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.