Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

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

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.