A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

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

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.