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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.