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

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

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

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

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.