Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

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.

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

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