Hot Springs, North Carolina
Hot Springs
An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.
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Hot Springs, North Carolina
An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Bristol, Virginia
Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.
Bristol, Virginia
With roots dating back to 1942, this retro diner was where Hank Williams is said to have uttered his last words.
Duffield, Virginia
A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Benham, Kentucky
Featuring a Loretta Lynn display and a re-created coal mine exhibit.
Corbin, Kentucky
The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Crossville, Tennessee
Explore the wide world of miniature trains.
Jamestown, Tennessee
It's believed the famed author's parents once used this spring to gather water.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Union, Kentucky
A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Somerset, Kentucky
The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.
Saint Francisville, Louisiana
Louisiana's first and only water buffalo farm makes exceptional cheeses.
Oquawka, Illinois
A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.
Hagerman, Idaho
An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.
Lexington, Kentucky
A pharmacy built in the shape of a mortar and pestle, now resembles a fancy cocktail.
Lexington, Kentucky
Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.
Versailles, Kentucky
This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
Clinton, Tennessee
A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
Tallassee, Tennessee
Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.