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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

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

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

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.

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.

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

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.