Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Mayna Treanor Avent Studio
Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Chicago, Illinois
Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Robbinsville, North Carolina
A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Nashville, Tennessee
Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.
Clayton, Georgia
An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.