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See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

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

The largest falcon hospital in the world, caring for over 6,000 feathered patients every year.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.