In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

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

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

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