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This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

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

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

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

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

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

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.