Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

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

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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.

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

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A white oak with property rights.