This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This down-home diner has been serving up comfort foods for over 100 years.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.