This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.