Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

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

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.