This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

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

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

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

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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 historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.