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

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A man's home is his castle.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

One of few remaining marionette theatres in the United States that still conducts regular shows.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

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

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.