Wetumpka, Alabama
Wetumpka Impact Crater
One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.
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Wetumpka, Alabama
One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.
Montgomery, Alabama
The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Pearl River, Louisiana
Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.
Williamstown, Kentucky
A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Dover, Tennessee
A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.
Nashville, Tennessee
Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.
Trenton, Tennessee
The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Kingston Springs, Tennessee
The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Atlanta, Georgia
This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
Buena Vista, Georgia
This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.