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This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

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

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.