A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

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

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

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.