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Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

Like Mars, but much closer.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

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

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

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

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.