The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

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

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

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

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