This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.