This giant bronze image of Christopher Columbus embarked on a voyage of its own.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

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

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

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

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

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

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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

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

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.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.