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The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.