Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

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

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

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

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

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

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

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

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

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.