Ayden, North Carolina
Skylight Inn BBQ
This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.
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Ayden, North Carolina
This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
St. Petersburg, Florida
You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.
Supply, North Carolina
Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.
Toomsuba, Mississippi
This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.
Carrabelle, Florida
This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.
Carrabelle, Florida
The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.
Carrabelle, Florida
Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.
Apalachicola, Florida
Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Mandeville, Louisiana
Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.
Mandeville, Louisiana
A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Bahamas
These two giant boulders mysteriously perched on a 60-foot cliff may have been slung up there by a raging tsunami.
Rokers Point Settlement, Bahamas
One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.
Beaufort, South Carolina
The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.