The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

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

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.