Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

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

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

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

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A white oak with property rights.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

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

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.