This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

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

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

What better place to take a seat?

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

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

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

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

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.