Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.