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

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

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

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

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

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

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The world's longest known cave system.

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

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

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

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.