One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

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

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.