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An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.