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

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

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

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

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

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

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.

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

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

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

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

The corporeal remains of Napoleon III's dentist rest under this 15-story obelisk.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."