Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

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

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

The imprints of astronaut Charles Duke’s moon boots live on at Myrtle Beach’s official South Carolina Hall of Fame.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.