Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Old Salem Coffee Pot
This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.
Brevard, North Carolina
This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Bermuda
In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.
Bermuda
Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.
Bermuda
The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.
Bermuda
The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.
Bermuda
The world's smallest drawbridge.
Bermuda
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
Monaco
Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Vatican City
If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.
Vatican City
The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
Chicago, Illinois
This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Barcelona, Spain
Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
San Francisco, California
Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.