Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

Ecuador’s historic seat of government has been quietly looted in recent decades, and no one knows how or by whom.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.