The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

One car at a time please.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Population: 1.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.