This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

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

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

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

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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