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HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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