Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.