Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Step into Narnia at this small park featuring statues from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."

A Serbian monument to plums.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

A historic building houses one of the most important archaeological institutes in Europe.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This drive-by, rotating mini-gallery is nestled in the suburbs of Colorado.

This ingenious engineering solution was built to stop the "theft" of canal water.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

It took a lifetime to collect these mechanical musical wonders.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.