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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

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