Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.