St. Helena Island, South Carolina
St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease Ruins
The remains of a chapel created for convenience.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
The remains of a chapel created for convenience.
Dawson, New Mexico
All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.
Roswell, New Mexico
A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Los Angeles, California
A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.
Bloomington, Illinois
The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.
Lafayette, Indiana
An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Yemassee, South Carolina
Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.
Townsend, Georgia
Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.
Bangor, Maine
The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.
Cedar, Michigan
The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.
Brimley, Michigan
This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
St. Augustine, Florida
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.
Maitland, Florida
This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.
Homosassa, Florida
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.