Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

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

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

An original apothecary from 1792.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

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

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

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

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.