Summerville, Georgia
Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens
This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
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Summerville, Georgia
This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
Charlestown, Indiana
Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Greenville, Illinois
Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Cincinnati, Ohio
A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Memphis, Tennessee
A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Hawkinsville, Georgia
Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Seale, Alabama
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Lithia Springs, Georgia
The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Argyle, Wisconsin
A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.
Sacramento, California
This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.
Louisville, Kentucky
This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.
Camden, Tennessee
An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.