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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.