The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The Gulf’s longest fishing pier is a year-round paradise for catch-and-release whoppers.

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

What better place to take a seat?

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.