Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.