Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This dam is part of the nation’s largest public power producer and a historic steward of Hiwassee River.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The longest pier in North America stretches over the Chesapeake Bay.

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

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

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

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

A section of this cemetery is dedicated to the lives lost from years of exposure to contaminated water.

This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.

The large vessel is known as world’s only full-scale replica of a Confederate ironclad.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

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

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

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.