At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

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

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

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

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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

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

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

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.