The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

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

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

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