The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

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

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

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

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

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

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

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

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

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

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

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

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

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

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