The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

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

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.