A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

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

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.