The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

A weathered, American Foursquare-style house originally built for lumber merchant William Wimsatt.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

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

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

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

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

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.