Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Synchronous Fireflies of the Great Smoky Mountains
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
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Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Clayton, Georgia
A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.
Macon, Georgia
The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Nashville, Tennessee
Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.
Nashville, Tennessee
When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
Eufaula, Alabama
That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Sparta, Tennessee
These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.
Iuka, Mississippi
Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.
Suches, Georgia
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
Silver City, Georgia
The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.
Florence, Alabama
The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
More than five miles of underground passageways.
Atlanta, Georgia
3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Atlanta, Georgia
The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.