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

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

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

Profile of a sleeping person four kilometers long in 250-meter-high cliffs.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.