A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A white oak with property rights.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.