Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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

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

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

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.