This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

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

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

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