This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The world's longest known cave system.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A white oak with property rights.

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