Nashville, Tennessee
Concrete Parthenon
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
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Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Birmingham, Alabama
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
Elberta, Alabama
Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.
Mount Baldy, California
Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Panama City Beach, Florida
A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Greenwood, Mississippi
A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.
Florence, Alabama
This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Tuscumbia, Alabama
You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.
Tupelo, Mississippi
This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.