After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

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

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

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

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

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

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.