A vestige from St. Augustine's First Spanish Period, built from native coquina rock

A bronze tribute to the everyday activists of St. Augustine's civil rights struggle

Among the strip malls and stoplights stands a giant, orange T. rex made of concrete with glowing red eyes.

A market building entangled in St. Augustine's history of slavery and civil rights protest

A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

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

Visit a memorial to the Wesley brothers, one the founder of Methodism and one a writer of over 6,500 hymns.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

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

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This grand, Italianate family home built in 1885 is now a charming bed and breakfast.

Based in a former haberdashery, Florida’s oldest continually-operating bar has a rich nautical history and lots of local lore.

Named from the Spanish for “beautiful woods,” this public cemetery is spread across 29 acres of moss-draped oaks.

Amelia Island’s oldest independent bookstore is a cozy oasis for literary exploration.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.