Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

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

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

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

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.