This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

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

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

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

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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