Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

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

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Yo, Adrian!

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.