This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

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

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

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

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

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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 bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.