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

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

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

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.