Atlanta, Georgia
Coca-Cola Secret Formula Vault
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
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Atlanta, Georgia
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
Atlanta, Georgia
For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”
Atlanta, Georgia
For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.
Atlanta, Georgia
A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Tallahassee, Florida
One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.
Tallahassee, Florida
Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.
Tallahassee, Florida
This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.
Tallahassee, Florida
An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.
Tallahassee, Florida
This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.
Tallahassee, Florida
The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.
Ozark, Alabama
Now abandoned, the first reinforced concrete bridge in Alabama still stands over the Pea River.
Montgomery, Alabama
The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.
Montgomery, Alabama
A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.
Montgomery, Alabama
Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.
Montgomery, Alabama
The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Vestavia Hills, Alabama
This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.
Birmingham, Alabama
This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.
Birmingham, Alabama
The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.