An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

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

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

Like Mars, but much closer.

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

An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.