The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

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

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

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.