Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.