This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

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

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.