This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

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

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

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

What better place to take a seat?

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.