Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

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

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The first passenger cable car in the world.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.