Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

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

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.