The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.  .

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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.

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.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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