The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

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

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

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