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Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

Now abandoned, the first reinforced concrete bridge in Alabama still stands over the Pea River.

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

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

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.