This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

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.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Constructed on the ruins of a convent, this tower saved countless lives.