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

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

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

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

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

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

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

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.