This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.