Mount Airy, North Carolina
The Grave of Chang and Eng Bunker
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
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Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Mount Gilead, North Carolina
This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Frisco, North Carolina
The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks. .
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Sanford, North Carolina
An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.
Sanford, North Carolina
Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Cameron, North Carolina
The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.
Sylva, North Carolina
This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Wilmington, North Carolina
A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.
Sylva, North Carolina
The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.
Collettsville, North Carolina
A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Asheville, North Carolina
This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Rougemont, North Carolina
A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Hildebran, North Carolina
An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.