Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

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

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

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

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."