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5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Asheville, North Carolina

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Helen's Bridge

Asheville, North Carolina

Helen's Bridge

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

35.5945, -82.5404

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Vintage D. Gottlieb & Co. game

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville Pinball Museum

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

35.5965, -82.5569

Added by joparkman

Grove Park Inn

Asheville, North Carolina

The Grove Park Inn

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

35.6202, -82.5429

Added by Elliot Carter

Garden Entrance at Silver River Chairs

Asheville, North Carolina

Silver River Center for Chair Caning

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

35.5849, -82.5661

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Old Farmers' Ball

Swannanoa, North Carolina

The Old Farmers' Ball

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

35.6125, -82.4404

Added by Chelsea

6 MILEs FROM Asheville

Cloudy Forest View

Burnsville, North Carolina

Mount Mitchell

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

35.7650, -82.2651

Added by thomasharper

19 MILEs FROM Asheville

Lake Lure

Lake Lure, North Carolina

Lake Lure

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

35.4356, -82.2317

Added by SabrinaW

21 MILEs FROM Asheville

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