Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

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

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

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

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.