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

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

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

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

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 nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

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

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.