This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

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

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

Each of these 87 large stones has a unique message. Together, they form part of the Minnesota Military Family Tribute.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.