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

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

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

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

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

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

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.