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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

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.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

After James Madison's death, his wife and former First Lady Dolley Madison lived in this yellow building near the White House.