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

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

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.