This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

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

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.