This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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