A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.