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The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.