The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.