This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

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

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

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.