A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

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

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

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.