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

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

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

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

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

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

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

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

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