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

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

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

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

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.