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

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

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

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

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

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

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

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

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

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

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

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The only pig museum in the U.S. holds one of the world's largest collections of pig items.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Nestled in Onondaga State Park, over 100 canoes carefully stacked in a replica of the famous standing stones.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.