A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The last standing piece of a famous Honolulu landmark.

This saltwater swimming pool, which is the last of its kind in the United States, is slowly crumbling within sight of multiple high-end beachside hotels.

This monument built by Japanese American immigrants spent decades underground.

Now a pedestrian bridge, this was once part of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran along the east coast of Kauai.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.