The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.