This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

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.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.