Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

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

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.