This old building has served as a bank, post office, library, and city hall.

A white oak with property rights.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

Marker for a long-gone electric trolley line that spurred the economic development of West Asheville.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

This outdoor mural is one stop on a walking trail that weaves art and history together to tell a tale of local history.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."