The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

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

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

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

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

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.