This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

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