This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.