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This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

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

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

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

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.