A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.