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

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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.

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

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.