A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.