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

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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