The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

The sole surviving building from Newgate village, a colonial settlement that was renamed Centreville in 1792 after it was granted town status by the Virginia Assembly.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.