Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

After James Madison's death, his wife and former First Lady Dolley Madison lived in this yellow building near the White House.

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.

The only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C. is a 15th-century French heroine.

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This American Civil War-era fort still stands near the border between Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.