Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

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

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

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

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

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

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

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.

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

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."