A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

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