One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.