Blairsville, Georgia
Brasstown Bald
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
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Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Columbus, Georgia
Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.
Marietta, Georgia
This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.
Macon, Georgia
The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.
Macon, Georgia
At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Columbia, South Carolina
The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.
Pescadero, California
A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.