Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

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.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

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

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

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

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

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

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

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

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

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.