The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.