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

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.