A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

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

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

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

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

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.