In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

This graveyard boasts a medley of diverse and imaginative funeral architecture.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

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

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

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

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

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

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.