Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

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

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

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

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.