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This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This mural pays tribute to Atlanta natives and hip hop legends Andre 3000 and Big Boi, better known as OutKast.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.