Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

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.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

A man's home is his castle.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.