This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

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

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

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

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

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

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

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

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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

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

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

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

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

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.