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

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

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

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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A man's home is his castle.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.