Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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.

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

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.