It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.