The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

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

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.