A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

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.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.