Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.