This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

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

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

A lovingly created and maintained collection of decorative gourd art.

On a clear afternoon, you can see mountain peaks more than 40 miles away from this clearing in the Pisgah National Forest.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

Saunter along the banks of one of North Carolina’s wildest rivers

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

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

Burial site more than 300 years old.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.