This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.