This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

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

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

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

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.