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

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

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

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

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