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

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

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

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

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

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.