Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A man's home is his castle.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

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

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

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

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Final remnants of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

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