This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

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

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

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

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.