A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

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

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

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

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.