North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

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.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.