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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

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

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

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

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

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 research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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