The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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

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

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

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

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

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

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.