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Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

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

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

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.