This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

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

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

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

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

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

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

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

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

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

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