The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

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

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.