A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.