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

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

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

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.