The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

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

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.