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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.