A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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

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

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

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

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

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

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

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

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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