Bryson City, North Carolina
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This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
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Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Townsend, Tennessee
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
More than five miles of underground passageways.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.
Clarence, Missouri
This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.
St. Charles, Missouri
Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.
St. Louis, Missouri
A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.
Ironton, Missouri
In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.
Columbia, Missouri
Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
St. Louis, Missouri
A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.
Oakley, Kansas
One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.
Manhattan, Kansas
A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.