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

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

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

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.