Places mcosumano Wants to Go

A historic canal winds through a unique, swampy landscape.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

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

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

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

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

Stroll among more than 50 large-scale sculptures created by world-class artists.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

He’s not from around here.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.