A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

Moonbows over Kentucky.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

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

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

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

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

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

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.