A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

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

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

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

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

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.