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The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

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

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

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

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.