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

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.