A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Like Mars, but much closer.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.