Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

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

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A man's home is his castle.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.