Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

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

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

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