A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Originally brought to Texas by Czech settlers, these sweet and savory pastries are an essential local breakfast staple.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

The former desk of Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto is all that remains after his mysterious disappearance following a drug conviction.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This triangular lighthouse is one of the most modern in the U.S.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."