A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

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

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

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

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

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

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

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

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

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

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

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.