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

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

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

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

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

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

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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

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

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

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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