This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

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

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

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

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

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.