A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.