The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

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

A museum tracing the origins & modern day uses of the classic Scottish tartan, particularly the kilt.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Giant trolls run this farm!

An abandoned generator and motor factory has become a multi-use industrial campus.

This grave marks the final resting place of pioneer John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

A white oak with property rights.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.