This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.