Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Known by many as once the world's smartest horse.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.