The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

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

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.