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This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

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

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

This oldest brewery in the U.S. has lived through fire, Prohibition, and six generations of family ownership.

This memorial was created by an Irish nurse who lived in New York City during 9/11.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.