The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

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

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

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

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

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.