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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

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

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

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.