Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.