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

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

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

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

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

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

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.