The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

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

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

In Edwin Hubble's hometown, a scale model of the groundbreaking telescope that was named in his honor.

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

Louisiana's tallest waterfall is only a short hike away from the middle of nowhere.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

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

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

One of the oldest show caves in Arkansas.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.