Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.