One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

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

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.