A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

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

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A man's home is his castle.