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

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

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

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

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

A man's home is his castle.

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

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.