These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

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

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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