The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.