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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

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

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

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

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

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

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

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

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.