The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.