The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

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

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.  .

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

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

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