This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

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

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

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

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

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

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

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