Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

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

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.