Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

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