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

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

This park offers a variety of sights and activities including trail rides and buffalo sightings.

The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.