Maggie Valley, North Carolina
Smoky Mountain Elk Fest
An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.
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Maggie Valley, North Carolina
An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.
Forneys Creek, North Carolina
This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.
Bryson City, North Carolina
The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.
Cherokee, North Carolina
Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.
Brevard, North Carolina
This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles, California
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Clayton, Georgia
An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.
Savannah, Georgia
An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.
Marietta, Georgia
This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.
Atlanta, Georgia
This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.