This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.