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The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A fascinating aviation museum where you can chat with the veterans who once flew the aircraft on display.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.