Homewood, Alabama
Alabama Booksmith
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.
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Homewood, Alabama
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.
Vestavia Hills, Alabama
This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Calhoun, Georgia
Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Thomasville, Georgia
This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.
Rome, Georgia
World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.
Johns Creek, Georgia
The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.
Summerville, Georgia
This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Nashville, Tennessee
At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
High Point, North Carolina
A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.
Burnsville, North Carolina
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Asheville, North Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.
Hildebran, North Carolina
An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.