The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?