Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.