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A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

This forest school's long history lets today's visitors experience resource management learnings in a beautiful environment.

Visit one, or all six, of the stops on this tour of a North Carolina signature sweet.

These tree-filled acres are also filled with history, hiking and a celebration of Appalachian crafts.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

Ancient stone graves shaped like ships provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the afterlife.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.