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

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

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.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

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

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The world's largest rotating world.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.