Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

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

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

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.

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

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 enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.