The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

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

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

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