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

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

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.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

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

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

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

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

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

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