A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.