This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.