Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

This small exhibit explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the first known conjoined twins.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

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

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.