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

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

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

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A white oak with property rights.

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

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

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

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

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

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.