The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

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

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

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

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

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.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.