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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

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

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

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

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

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

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