The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

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

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