Suches, Georgia
Toccoa River Swinging Bridge
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
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Suches, Georgia
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
Calvert City, Kentucky
A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This video store is a horror buff's dream.
Tallassee, Tennessee
Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.
Powell, Tennessee
A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Birmingham, Alabama
This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.
Clinton, Tennessee
This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.
Blue Ridge, Georgia
Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.
Morganton, Georgia
A chimpanzee sanctuary in the Blue Ridge Mountains giving former research chimps a new chance at life.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.
Vonore, Tennessee
A group of monuments to the Cherokee origins of Tennessee.
Owl Creek, North Carolina
This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.
Mineral Bluff, Georgia
The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.
Greenback, Tennessee
One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Murphy, North Carolina
The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Vonore, Tennessee
This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.
Ellijay, Georgia
This hillside mushroom farm shares land with a Buddhist monastery.