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This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

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

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

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

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

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

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

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

One of few remaining marionette theatres in the United States that still conducts regular shows.

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.