A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.