One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

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

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.