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

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

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

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

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

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

What better place to take a seat?

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

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

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

A white oak with property rights.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Like Mars, but much closer.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

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

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.