Smithland, Kentucky
Mantle Rock
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
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Smithland, Kentucky
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.
Cave City, Kentucky
One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Iuka, Mississippi
Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Auburn, Kentucky
The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.
Palmyra, Tennessee
Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Kingston Springs, Tennessee
The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Simsboro, Louisiana
The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.
San Angelo, Texas
The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
Gibsland, Louisiana
The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
Haughton, Louisiana
Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.
Galveston, Texas
The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.