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A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

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

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

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

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.