"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

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

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

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

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

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

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

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

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.