Places Octomagi Wants to Go

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A white oak with property rights.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

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

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.