Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

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

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.

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

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

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.