A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

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.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

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.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A white oak with property rights.