Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

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

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Edinburgh’s version of the Sistine Chapel is this former church, with an interior covered in paintings done by one woman over the course of nearly a decade.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A plaque commemorates a Victorian scientist's monumental discovery about waves.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.