Natchez, Mississippi
The Emerald Mound
The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.
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Natchez, Mississippi
The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.
Foxworth, Mississippi
A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Natchez, Mississippi
This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.
Flora, Mississippi
A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.
Leland, Mississippi
A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.
Claiborne County, Mississippi
An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.
Vestavia Hills, Alabama
This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.
Clayton, Alabama
In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.
Mobile, Alabama
Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Tuscumbia, Alabama
Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.
Monroeville, Alabama
An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Chipley, Florida
A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.
Vernon, Florida
For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.
Mortimer, North Carolina
A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.
Gibsonville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
Hatteras, North Carolina
This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.
Linville, North Carolina
You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.
Hatteras, North Carolina
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
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.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Charleston, South Carolina
This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.