The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

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

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A historic chapel filled with colorful murals and a colorful past.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.