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

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

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

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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