Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

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

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.