Greenback, Tennessee
Fortress of Faith (Greenback Castle)
One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.
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Greenback, Tennessee
One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Chatsworth, Georgia
The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.
Summerville, Georgia
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Cartersville, Georgia
This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.
Key West, Florida
Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Townville, South Carolina
A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.
Wilmington, North Carolina
A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.
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.
Carolina Beach, North Carolina
This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Conway, South Carolina
This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
New York, New York
A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
New York, New York
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
Homewood, Alabama
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.