4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

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

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

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

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.