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

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

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

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

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

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.