An oasis of shade and color amidst the bustle of the old city.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

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

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

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

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This stone honors the U.S. Rangers who made Carrickfergus their home base during World War II.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.