Windsor Ruins – Port Gibson, MississippiTwenty-three towering Corinthian columns stand like silent sentinels, all that remains of what was once the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi. The columns’ haunting presence against the Southern sky draws photographers and history buffs who sense the ghostly echoes of lavish parties once held here. Today, the six-story brick mansion with its distinctive onion dome offers a remarkable glimpse into suspended construction, with scaffolding and tools still resting where workers left them 160 years ago. Forks Of Cypress – Near Florence, AlabamaNothing captures the haunting beauty of lost Southern grandeur like these floating columns. Rankin–Harwell House (The Columns) – Near Florence, South CarolinaFour towering columns rise unexpectedly from the South Carolina countryside, the last vestiges of a plantation home destroyed by fire in the 1930s.