Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

One of the only remaining vestiges of baseball's Negro Leagues in Atlanta.

The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

Dedicated to the "King of Soul."

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.