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.

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

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A white oak with property rights.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This is one really big nut.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."