This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

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

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

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

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

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

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.