Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

Where you can experience the story of Appalachia, as told by Appalachians.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.