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

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

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

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

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

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

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

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

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

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.