Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

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

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

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

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.