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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

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

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

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

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

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

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 North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.