The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

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

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.