These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

A white oak with property rights.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

A man's home is his castle.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.