"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.