A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

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

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

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

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.