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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.