A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

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

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.