This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

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

This sinkhole is disguised as a pond and named after the man who stumbled upon it.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

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

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

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

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

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