This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.