A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

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

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.