A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This small exhibit explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the first known conjoined twins.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

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

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.