Jekyll Island, Georgia
Horton House
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
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Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Munfordville, Kentucky
A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Lyndhurst, Virginia
This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.
Wilmington, North Carolina
A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Americus, Georgia
HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.
Winnabow, North Carolina
From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.
Spencer, West Virginia
A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Cave City, Kentucky
Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.
Cave City, Kentucky
One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Buena Vista, Georgia
This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Supply, North Carolina
This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.
Supply, North Carolina
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.
Delta, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Lebanon, Tennessee
This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.
Warm Springs, Virginia
Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.
Anniston, Alabama
A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.
Lexington, Virginia
This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.
Savannah, Georgia
A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.