I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.