This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.