The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.