This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

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

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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

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

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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