This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.