Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Visit Morris, the Horse, the symbol of the small town of Tryon since 1928!

This historic Art Nouveau mansion has guided tours and impressive views of the Currituck Sound.

This 1920s mansion in the Outer Banks has some of the best examples of Art Nouveau ornamentations in the United States.

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

Visit one, or all six, of the stops on this tour of a North Carolina signature sweet.

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

Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.

These tree-filled acres are also filled with history, hiking and a celebration of Appalachian crafts.

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

On a clear afternoon, you can see mountain peaks more than 40 miles away from this clearing in the Pisgah National Forest.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

An elephant is carved onto the gravestone of a man who was crushed by one.

The first documented commercial gold find in the United States.

This museum is dedicated to the workers that help keep the power on.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

Marvel at 400-year-old trees in one of the last remaining old-growth Appalachian forests.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

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

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.