This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.