Places Ciaranofeire Wants to Go

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

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

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

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

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

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

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

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

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

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

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

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

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.