An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

These boots are made for selfies.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

An original apothecary from 1792.