These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

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

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

A man's home is his castle.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

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

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.