A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

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

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

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.

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

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

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

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.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.