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.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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