The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.