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Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

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

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.