A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

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

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.