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

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

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

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

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