Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

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

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.