A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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

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

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

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

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

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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

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.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

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