A large circus museum with summer performances.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

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

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

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

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.