A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.