An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.