Places archampion Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to a unique ecosystem.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

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

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

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