This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

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

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

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

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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.

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

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