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A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

It's believed the famed author's parents once used this spring to gather water.

This stone incorrectly marks the 35th parallel, causing some territorial kerfuffles.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A section of this cemetery is dedicated to the lives lost from years of exposure to contaminated water.