Places Edited by mosherhmh

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.