This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

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

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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