This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

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

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.