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

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.