Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.