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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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

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

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

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

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