The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

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

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.