This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

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

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

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

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

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

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

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

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

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.