This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

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

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