This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

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

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

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

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

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.