Places cogabrielson Wants to Go

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

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

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The world’s largest stone statue of Luther looms over a North Carolina campus.

A remarkable headstone said to be a gift from Daniel Boone.

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.

An ancient cave with connections to the American Revolution.

A section of this cemetery is dedicated to the lives lost from years of exposure to contaminated water.

A quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

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.

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

A lovingly created and maintained collection of decorative gourd art.

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

A museum tracing the origins & modern day uses of the classic Scottish tartan, particularly the kilt.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

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

Visit the site where the original Krispy Kreme doughnut was made back in 1937.

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

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

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

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

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