This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

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

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.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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