Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

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

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

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

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

A white oak with property rights.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

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

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

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

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

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

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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