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For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

A burial site located in the middle of a road.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

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

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

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

It's believed the soldier was 109 years old when he passed away.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.