The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.