The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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

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

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

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.