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Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

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

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

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

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

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

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

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

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

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.