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Chattanooga, Tennessee
International Towing and Recovery Museum
This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.
35.0170, -85.3236
Cartersville, Georgia
Etowah Indian Mounds
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
34.1251, -84.8077
Ashburn, Georgia
Giant Peanut Monument
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
31.7064, -83.6354
Mount Dora, Florida
Art Alley
A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.
28.8070, -81.6247
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Walnut Street Bridge
Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.
35.0567, -85.3075
Savannah, Georgia
Wormsloe State Historic Site
The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.
31.9804, -81.0692
Washington, D.C.
Eritrean Cultural Civic Center
Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.
38.9210, -76.9725
Arlington, Virginia
George Washington Memorial Parkway
This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.
38.8438, -77.0491
Washington, D.C.
Carnegie Library of Washington, D.C.
D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.
38.9027, -77.0229
Washington, D.C.
Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
38.8997, -77.0221
Fremont, California
California School for the Blind
Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.
37.5632, -121.9649
Longwood, Florida
The Senator
The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."
28.7208, -81.3313
Orlando, Florida
Global Convergence Sculpture
Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.
28.5428, -81.3778
Winter Park, Florida
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
28.6014, -81.3496
Maitland, Florida
Art & History Museums of Maitland
This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.
28.6261, -81.3675
Homosassa, Florida
Monkey Island of Homosassa
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
28.7858, -82.6169
Homosassa, Florida
Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park
Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.
28.8008, -82.5765
Crystal River, Florida
Three Sisters Springs
This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.
28.8917, -82.5854
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
28.5167, -82.5739
Chiefland, Florida
Manatee Springs State Park
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
29.4969, -82.9668
Walterboro, South Carolina
Walterboro Water Tower
This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.
32.9026, -80.6626
Charleston, South Carolina
Old Charleston City Jail
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
32.7785, -79.9372
Charleston, South Carolina
Giant's Causeway Pillar
A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.
32.7774, -79.9313
Charleston, South Carolina
Fireproof Building and South Carolina Historical Society
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.
32.7773, -79.9309
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