Key West, Florida
Captain Tony's Saloon
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
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Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Miami Beach, Florida
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Birmingham, Alabama
A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.
Huntsville, Alabama
This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.
Tuscumbia, Alabama
Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.
Sylacauga, Alabama
A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.
Huntsville, Alabama
Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.
Huntsville, Alabama
A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Huntsville, Alabama
It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.
Birmingham, Alabama
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
Montgomery, Alabama
The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Montgomery, Alabama
The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Florence, Alabama
This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Atlanta, Georgia
In Midtown Atlanta, tons of marble appears to be devouring a Fiat Panda at this unique art installation.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Atlanta, Georgia
Final remnants of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition.
Mineral Bluff, Georgia
The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.