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

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."