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

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

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

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

Like Mars, but much closer.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

A giant cement churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A white oak with property rights.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.