A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.