A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

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

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.