A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

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

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

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

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.