Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

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

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.