Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

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

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

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

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.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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