The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.