Places bbarbarappilco Wants to Go

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

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

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

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

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

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 high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.