Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

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

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

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

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

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

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

Outsider Art Community.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.