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

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.