Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

The site of a tragedy in 1908 that claimed the lives of 171 people and changed fire safety laws across the state.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.