Lynchburg, Virginia
Museums at Old City Cemetery
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
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Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.
Asheville, North Carolina
A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Beech Mountain, North Carolina
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
Raleigh, North Carolina
In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Creedmoor, North Carolina
Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.
Sanford, North Carolina
Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.
Coverham, England
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Rougemont, North Carolina
A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.