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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

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

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.