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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

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

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

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

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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

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

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