Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

Hiding in plane sight.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

According to legend, King Arthur killed a beast that dwelled beneath the waters of this Welsh lake.

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.