This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.