After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

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

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

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

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