The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.