This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.