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

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

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

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

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

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

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

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

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 vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

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