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Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

A white oak with property rights.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.