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This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

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

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

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

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