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Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

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

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

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

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

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

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

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

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

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

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.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

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

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

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

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.