The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.