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

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

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

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

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

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

North Carolina's only restored fort from the French and Indian War.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This small exhibit explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the first known conjoined twins.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.