Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.