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

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

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

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.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.