This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

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

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

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

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

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

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

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

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

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

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

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.