This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

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.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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.

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

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A spectacular tribute to statesman and philanthropist Andrew Mellon.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

Washington D.C.'s most famous pianist, composer, and bandleader still tickles the ivories outside Howard Theater.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

Once a sewer culvert, this road tunnel now offers cyclists and pedestrians a subterranean stroll under the C&O Canal.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.