The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

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

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.