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The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This Native American petroglyph marks the location of an important, Creek trail.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."