Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

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

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

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

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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