Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

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

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.