The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

Though it is far from the site of the attacks on September 11, 2001, this memorial trail commemorates the lives that were lost on that day.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

Designed by famed architect Horace King.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

A white oak with property rights.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

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

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.