Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

The first hospital in the New World.

A remarkable range of flora and fauna are represented in this Dominican nature preserve.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Grand Cayman is home to a colorful sculpture garden filled with giant concrete animals.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

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

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.