This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in 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 Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

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

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

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

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.