This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

A unique, eye-catching statue that carries an important message of hope.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

An eerie illusion of a nun is said to haunt this cathedral’s Baroque-style bell tower.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.