One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

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

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

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

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