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

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

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

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

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

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

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

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 walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

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

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.