A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.