Milledgeville, Georgia
Central State Hospital
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
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Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Nags Head, North Carolina
This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Buena Vista, Georgia
This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Summerville, Georgia
This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
Savannah, Georgia
This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.
Tupelo, Mississippi
This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Edisto Island, South Carolina
This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Supply, North Carolina
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.
Atlanta, Georgia
An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.