You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.