The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

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

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

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

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

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

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.