Fitzgerald, Georgia
Jefferson Davis Capture Site
The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.
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Fitzgerald, Georgia
The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Hawthorne, Florida
This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.
Cedar Key, Florida
This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.
Williston, Florida
A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.
Williston, Florida
This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.
Tucson, Arizona
One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.
Charleston, South Carolina
This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.
Lamont, Florida
View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.
Carrabelle, Florida
Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.
White Springs, Florida
This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
Sanford, Florida
This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.
Cedar Key, Florida
A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
White Springs, Florida
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Tallahassee, Florida
A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.
St. Petersburg, Florida
History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.
Corbin, Kentucky
The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.
Clearwater, Florida
This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.