Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Chef Ashleigh Shanti serves up a classic Appalachian fish fry.

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

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

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

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

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

An impressive site containing some of the earth’s rarest living fossils.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

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

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.

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

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

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

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

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

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