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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

The world's longest known cave system.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.