A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

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

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

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

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

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

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