The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

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

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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

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

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.