South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

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

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

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

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

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.