Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

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

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

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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