A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.