This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

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

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

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

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

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

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

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

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

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

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

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

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.