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

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

A plaque honors Miami's sister city in the Canary Islands, inviting one to reflect on their place in the world.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

This spooky road cut through a mound of ancient coral might be haunted by a witch.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

This 25-foot tall clock tower commemorates the start of one of America's foremost shopping districts and the end of the historic Palm Beach Pier.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.