This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.