This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

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

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?