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

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.