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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

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

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

More than 100 colorful residents stand post in this seaside Australian city.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!