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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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

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

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

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?