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This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.