The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

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

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

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.

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.

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

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

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.