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

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

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

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

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

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

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

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

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