This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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

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

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

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

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.