An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

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

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.