This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.