The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

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

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

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

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

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.

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.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

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

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

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 stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.