A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

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

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

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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

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

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

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

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

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

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.