A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.

Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

A spirited shopping experience.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.