You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

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

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

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

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

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

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.