This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

This cave system allegedly holds the "metallic library" of a lost ancient civilization.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.