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Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

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

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

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

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.