Plains, Georgia
Jimmy Carter Smiling Peanut
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
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White, Georgia
Old Car City
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Atlanta, Georgia
Gravity Research Foundation Monument
This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.
St. Marys, Georgia
St. Marys Submarine Museum
Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Blue Ghost Fireflies
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Judaculla Rock
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Rougemont, North Carolina
Castle Mont Rouge
A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.
Hildebran, North Carolina
Abandoned Henry River Mill Village
An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.
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Hermosa, South Dakota
Spokane Ghost Town
Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Chapel In The Hills
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Montrose, South Dakota
Porter Sculpture Park
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
Poinsett Bridge
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.
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Bowman, South Carolina
UFO Welcome Center
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Walhalla, South Carolina
Stumphouse Tunnel
An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.
Florence, South Carolina
Mars Bluff Crater
"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.
Johns Island, South Carolina
The Angel Oak
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Bishopville, South Carolina
Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Death
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
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Los Angeles, California
Underground Tunnels of Los Angeles
During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Morristown, Tennessee
The 'Evil Dead' Cabin
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Sparta, Tennessee
Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Erwin, Tennessee
Lost Cove Settlement
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Raccoon Mountain Caverns
More than five miles of underground passageways.
