The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.