A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.