Historic Lee family homestead built in 1785, later serving as a private home and a Civil War hospital.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

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

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.