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UFO Welcome Center
Permanently Closed

Bowman, South Carolina

UFO Welcome Center

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Top of the water tower in Walterboro

Walterboro, South Carolina

Walterboro Water Tower

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Old Charleston City Jail

Charleston, South Carolina

Old Charleston City Jail

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The Fireproof Building

Charleston, South Carolina

Fireproof Building and South Carolina Historical Society

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Old Slave Mart

Charleston, South Carolina

Old Slave Mart

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

Osceola's grave at Fort Moultrie

Sullivan's Island, South Carolina

Osceola's Grave

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

The Folly Boat

Folly Beach, South Carolina

Folly Boat

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

Edisto Bottle Tree

Edisto Island, South Carolina

Edisto Mystery Tree

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

The Anchorage in Beaufort

Beaufort, South Carolina

Haint Blue Porch Ceilings

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

The Waving Girl

Savannah, Georgia

The Waving Girl

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

The echoing X. (Photo via Waymarking.com)

Savannah, Georgia

Rousakis Plaza Echo Square

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The Marshall House

Savannah, Georgia

The Marshall House

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Lucas Theatre

Savannah, Georgia

Lucas Theatre

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

The supposedly upside-down windows on the first floor.

Savannah, Georgia

Sears Mishap House Myth

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

Colonial Park Cemetery

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Olson House

Cushing, Maine

Olson House

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

The Methodist steeple is now protected at the park (you can still see it).

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Wash Woods Settlement

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Smygehuk Utkiksplats (Sweden's Southernmost Point)

Smygehuk, Sweden

Smygehuk Utkiksplats (Sweden's Southernmost Point)

Sweden's southernmost point is located in this charming fishing village.

The barracks.

Recsk, Hungary

Recsk National Memorial Park

For decades, Hungary's Communist Party insisted this gulag had never existed.

Casemat at Langenboomseweg

Mill, Netherlands

Defensiekanaal

This vast World War II defense line was the site of a fierce battle.

Hancock wide shot.

Nathrop, Colorado

Hancock Ghost Town

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Looking Glass Rock seen from the Looking Glass Rock Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Brevard, North Carolina

Looking Glass Rock

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Captain George Pollard House

Nantucket, Massachusetts

Captain George Pollard House

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Historic Walnford

Allentown, New Jersey

Historic Walnford

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.

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