The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.