Birmingham, Alabama
Sloss Furnaces
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Summerville, Georgia
This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
Buena Vista, Georgia
This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Andersonville, Georgia
The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.
Rome, Georgia
World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.
Calhoun, Georgia
Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Suches, Georgia
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Warm Springs, Georgia
FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Atlanta, Georgia
This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Macon, Georgia
The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.
Macon, Georgia
At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
Cleveland, Georgia
A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Staunton, Virginia
The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.
Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Elberton, Georgia
Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.