Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.