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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.