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Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

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

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

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A science teacher's dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.