This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

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

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

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

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

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

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

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.