St. Augustine, Florida
Pinehurst and San Sebastian Cemeteries
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.
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St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Jekyll Island, Georgia
If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Savannah, Georgia
An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.
Savannah, Georgia
The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.
Savannah, Georgia
Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.
Port Orange, Florida
Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.
Tallahassee, Florida
This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.
Tallahassee, Florida
This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.
Tallahassee, Florida
This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.
Tallahassee, Florida
This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Tallahassee, Florida
This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.
Cashiers, North Carolina
This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.
Asheville, North Carolina
An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.
Asheville, North Carolina
This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Asheville, North Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.
Walhalla, South Carolina
A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.
Walhalla, South Carolina
An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.