This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

In addition to escorting prospective couples to and from ballrooms, this lane was also a place for gentlemen to settle scores.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

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

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

Largest cave system in Africa.

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

A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.