A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South 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.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.