Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

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.

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

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

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.